I can't wait till Blu-ray gets really cheap, especially the movies. I love the hard coating... it's so sexy.

Sweet, this should help bring the PS3 cost down for $ony!!!!

Thats probably a cheaper BR player, w/o BDlive, downloadable conent, or firmware update support.

Profile 2.0 is the standard now which includes network support and storage.

yeah,  unless manufacture costs for blu ray somehow lower too.

           Not yet anywhere my brother.....but the dates I am seeing is in October/November.  Just in time for the holidays.  It may release earlier in other territories, but not as of yet.

           A must own series fo shizzzle!

players are already $168, while $99 is a great price, it is pretty cheap now. Its just marketing it is a pain in the rear having players and discs a large distance from one another. Wal-Mart is solving this issue.

The definitive versions have been out forever in a format called 'book' that requires no power! 

At this price, people who continue to buy upconverting DVD players need to be sterilized.

Unless they drop the price of the PS3 this could be a blow to sales. Since these are Chinese companies making the players with cheap labor they can afford to cut costs but I don't think the blu-ray player Sony uses in their machines are as easy to cost reduce as these cheaper counter parts.